Instead, the feature puts all of its focus on Joseph’s older brother, Herman Mankiewicz, and his journey writing the script for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, rendering the younger sibling a side character in the tale.
It created a strange challenge for Tom Pelphrey, which we discussed during the Mank press day last month – our interview featured in the video at the top of this article.
In the new Netflix movie, the Iron Fist actor plays Joseph Mankiewicz, a man recognized as one of the all-time great American directors, but it also happens to be a story that is entirely set in the years before he took the helm of his first film.